Dr. Sergiu Pașcă

We don't know what else to do.

We've tried behavioral therapy.

We've tried these therapies.

Nothing works.

And everybody's recommended that we should just go now to South America and do this injection.

Should we do it or not?

And of course, my answer is always like no, because again, there's no reason that that would work.

Some parents come back and of course they report an improvement.

And which is generally temporary to the extent that we know, of course, it's never really been studied in a very systematic way.

Partly, of course, there is a very strong placebo effect, which you can, you know, especially in parents, like by proxy, when you have a child who's like very sick, those placebo effects are very, very strong.

These parents really want those kids to improve.

So they will see things that are improving.

Plus, those are still developing kids, right?

So week by week, they may acquire new milestones.

And then the other thing, which of course could be part of this, is that there is an inflammatory effect very often.

And so that's almost like the fever in a way, right?

Like would increase perhaps some of the cytokines, will create a fever, perhaps that is associated.

We don't really know.

But certainly there are dangers associated with procedures like this that lack the rationale, first of all.

And then, of course, then they lack any regulatory framework.